Archive for the AnyChart Charting Component

Announce – new version with interactive maps

November 12th, 2007 by Anton Baranchuk

We’re glad to announce new version of our charting component with new exciting chart type – geographical maps.

Interactive Maps is a unique feature of AnyChart component that allows you to visualize geo related data.

We use the same swf file to render maps and charts – it allows combining maps and chart in the interactive dashboard and easily deploying both of them.

The maps themselves are stored in a separate file with “*.amap” extension. You just place this file and swf file on your server and specify it in XML settings file to render a desired map.

Here are some tasks you can solve with AnyChart Flash Maps:

* Create Drilldown Maps.
* Create Geographical Related Dashboards.
* Create RealEstate, Distributor, Franchise, Dealer, etc. locators.
* Visualize statistical or reporting data easily.
* Visualize marketing research reports.
* Create Area Selectors for web-sites.

AnyChart Flash Map Features:

* Draw custom markers, bubbles, lines and connectors on the maps.
* Draw any map shipped in the package with no additional charge or royalty – see the list of available maps .
* Use any SHP file to create your custom map – if you have SHP files that contains maps you need – contact us at contact@anychart.com and we will convert them into AnyChart compatible format.
* Display any map in one of ten map projections.
* Use geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude) to add custom points to the map.
* Use thresholds to color a map automatically, according to the data stored in your database.
* Add legend, labels and tooltips to a map.
* Attach custom actions to any map region – to create interactive web applications.
* Attach any custom data from your database to the map – for labels, tooltips, legend, coloring or actions.

New maps

AnyChart 4.1.1 – new version with the significant perfomance improvement

November 5th, 2007 by Anton Baranchuk

Today AnyChart programmers have released the new version – 4.1.1 with one very exciting improvement – the performance while loading the data. They say that some research work in the area of nanotechnology and the latest results in CPU engineering were involved 😉 and here it is – https://www.anychart.com/download/

Some tests with huge data sets show the improvement in 30 times – awesome! Now it is very fast!

Yes – I believe in nanotechnology and that words about CPU engineering, but I still think that we deal with some black magic here. 🙂

Of course it is a joke about nanotechnology, actually a lot of work was done to optimize the processing of data and tuning the loading of XML and we’ve got the result. I’m sure AnyChart users would appreciate that and like the new release.

New article “Creating interactive digital dashboards from scratch” by Tim Loginov

October 29th, 2007 by Anton Baranchuk

http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/creating-dashboard-from-scratch.php

Like the instrument panel in a car, the computer version-dashboard displays critical info in easy-to-read graphics, assembled from data pulled in real time from corporate software programs. Dashboards deliver the detailed information needed by everyone for day-to-day decision-making. Simple yet powerful analysis allows any user to discover vital trends in business performance and continuously monitor the performance of your organization at all levels and in real time.

Dashboards provide your business with real-time business intelligence across all areas of your company – from accounting and sales, to fulfillment and support. The Dashboard offers instant snapshots of your designated key performance indicators (KPIs), and provides real-time trend graphs and ad hoc reports appropriate for each role in your business. With direct drill-down capability, you can move from a summary level directly to greater detail, and you can see real-time information to proactively manage for better results.

While most enterprise dashboards in production are probably still custom built, we provide you a new way of dashboard creation – using AnyChart Flash Component Dashboard mode. Since all charts created by AnyChart Flash Chart Component are rendered using a single swf file it is very easy to place such swf file to your web-site and provide it with an XML configuration file that configures a dashboard.

In this article we will create step-by-step a sample dashboard, at first – we will make a static one – that can be used for presentation purposes, and then – we will add interactivity, which makes dashboard a really useful and modern tool of business data analytics. We’ll go thought all steps from “paper-design” created by hand to the interactive Flash dashboard.

paper-design result

Read it here http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/creating-dashboard-from-scratch.php

This article was written by Tim Loginov as part of AnyChart Documentation.

Version 4.1.0 Released!

October 16th, 2007 by Alex Batsuev

Update includes:

  • Save As Image Feature
  • New Chart Types:
    • 3D Column (Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked),
    • 3D Bar (Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked),
    • 2D/3D Pyramid(Stacked, 100% Stacked ),
    • 2D/3D Cone (Stacked, 100% Stacked),
    • 2D/3D Cylinder(Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked).
  • New Financial Chart Types:
    • Japanese Candlestick,
    • Open-High-Low-Close Chart.
  • DateTime:
    • X and Y Axes DateTime Scales with full control over labels and scale,
    • Fully Customizable DateTime Formatting,
    • Flexible DateTime Input/Output localization,
    • UNIX TimeStamp Input Format,
    • Scatter Charts with DateTime axes.
  • Dashboard Creation Feature:
    • Create Interactive Dashboard using powerfull layout, templates and actions system using only one SWF file.
  • User’s Guide Updated:
    • Over 80 tutorials with more than 300 chart samples,
    • A number of Implementation Samples – including AJAX integration and JavaScript Event Handlers.
  • XML Reference Updated.
  • Interactivity:
    • Unlimited Number of Custom Actions on Point Click – open web page, launch external function, update another chart in dashboard and drilldown.
    • Selected State Configuration for All Chart Types, ability to set default selected element on chart.
  • Color Range Palettes – automatic feature for coloring all data points in different colors.
  • Preloader Texts Customization Feature
  • Advanced Number Formatting and Scaling
  • Ability to set Meta Data for Points and Series using Custom Attributes for use in labels, tooltips, legend and actions.

How to add Adobe Macromedia Flash content into Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

September 23rd, 2007 by Alex Batsuev

Integrating a Flash movie inside PowerPoint allows vector animation and interactivity to be added to a PowerPoint presentation. This strategy can be used to increase the performance. And it is really easy 😉

Here is a simple tutorial how to embed AnyChart into PowerPoint presentations:
Using AnyChart with PowerPoint presentations

add-flash-to-powerpoint-screen

New version – 4.0.6

September 23rd, 2007 by Alex Batsuev

Hi to everybody!

We’re happy to inform you about new release – 4.0.6

Update includes:

  • Complete XML reference with all nodes
  • Better gallery
  • Some minor bug fixes:
    • Now tokens {%DataPlotYMin} and {%DataPlotYMax} work in all texts and formats
    • Fix for bug with X axes invert for Spline area series
  • Some changes in XML:
    • Data description for table legend was changed. New format is:

      <item>
      <attribute name=””></attribute>
      …
      </item>

    • Attributes x and y nodes <legend> were changed to ? horizontal_padding ? vertical_padding

Seattle 2007, 18 of September 10.29

September 18th, 2007 by Timothy Loginov

Today Sibental Inc. releases new, absolutely new version of AnyChart – data visualization solution. New version has significant differences from the previous one – first of all, it is advanced feature set for data visualization tasks, reporting and RIA (rich internet applications). The totally redesigned engine includes a lot of new chart types and tools combined into one single SWF file. It has a lot of interactivity features to allow users to create complex chart solutions and digital dashboards. We’re really excited about new version and hope it will be useful for your business needs. For sure, there are a lot of new features to be done, but our team has very aggressive plans to make AnyChart the best charting solution! Are you with us?

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